From: Peter Harris <git@peter.is-a-geek.org>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:20:41 GMT
Subject: Re: Working with remotes; cloning remote references
Message-ID: <eaa105840810161220k26eebd48q8de606597f2be055@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <48F7852F.109@xiplink.com>

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Marc Branchaud wrote:
> From this point of view (and please correct me if I'm wrong), it would be
> good if "git clone" had an option to include a repo's remote references in
> the clone.  The clone's origin reference would point to the original repo as
> usual, but all the other remotes would be in the clone.

"git clone" doesn't have this option, but you can turn it on
immediately after with something similar to:
git config --add remote.origin.fetch +refs/remotes/*:refs/remotes/*
(which I use for fanning-out my git-svn repos)

See "git help fetch" for further documentation.

Peter Harris